Trans Am Bike Race / TransAm / TABR

Sounds like a Fountains of Wayne tribute act

Is hippy really doing TCR as well? Lol

I feel this years attempt will involve riding to the nearest brewery in Geraardsbergen and then hoping off and settling in for the next 2 weeks. Tweet volume will be about the same though but slightly less coherent...

I hope @skinny can continue to provide us with his excellent recap videos for TCR...

I'm assuming that he'll be so far in front that he'll easily be able to spare a couple of hours a day making videos :-)

Bonus points for recording whilst riding...

Win

Trend is dh today but still lumpy

I stopped chasing LA. It was making me more mental. Trying to decide game plan. I'm uikleto be able to ride right through so maybe try 360k each day

Fucking tired now

Steamy. Feels like storm

Yay DH

Hey Hippy, have you taken any photos of the food you've eaten on your holiday? I searched Twitter but couldn't see any. Some landscapes would be nice too.

Nearly there hoppy

I wish.

I expect I'll be smartphone less. Just an old Nokia for emergencies.

Why no smartphone?

Battery life, I expect.

Distractions.

Checking other people's progress on Trackleaders is also a bit of a grey area within the rules of some unsupported races.

Time spent pissing around with smart phone use/charging etc could be better spent riding/sleeping/eating ??

come the fuck on hippy. you know there are a shit load of us here rooting for ya.

You know what rooting means in Aussie slang?

hippy's gone native in Britain, he probably won't even remember. He's already half American by now in any case. :)

Australia -> U.K. -> US

Hippy is following Rupert Murdoch's career path only on a bicycle.

What Andy and tm said.

Nothing wrong with checking tracker on your phone, as anyone can do that. But its time wasting, as are other phone stuff. I just like to disconnect and get on with riding.

Well, you are what you eat.

hippy should finish tomorrow. Soon he will have climbed his last major hill and then it will be prodominantly downhill for the final 250 miles or so.

I have t say that I am very pleased that hippy doesn't adhere to skinny's Spartan approach to racing. While I perfectly understand why skinny does that, hippy's tweets, posts on here and photos have been amazingly entertaining.

You just enjoy knowing about other people's cycling related arse damage.